Wednesday - 6/22/2011
Kathrine Switzer Event

Event Location: Fleet Feet Sports - Piper's Alley

Event Time: 5:15pm-6:00pm

RSVP and attend this event to get a free pair of Icebreaker socks worth $18.

Icebreaker Ambassador Kathrine Switzer will be joining us at the Piper's Alley store to give a talk on how running has become an official sport for women since the 1960's, and her role in this momentous development.

 

Brought to you by Icebreaker, running gear that feels good, looks good and doesn't stink! RSVP and attend this event and get a free pair of Icebreaker socks worth $18.

 

**Photo Story: In 1967, irate race official Jock Semple tried forcibly to remove Kathrine Switzer from the then all-male Boston Marathon simply because she was a woman.  Luckily for Switzer, the official was bounced out of the race instead by her boyfriend and she went on to finish.  Switzer was inspired by the incident to create running events for over a million women in 27 countries and led the drive to get the women’s marathon event into the Olympic Games (1984). Switzer is also the winner of the 1974 New York City Marathon, an Emmy Award-winning TV commentator of marathons,  and author of  the best-selling memoir Marathon Woman, Running and Walking for Women Over 40 and the co-author of  26.2: Marathon Stories. She will be appearing at Where When Why”

Photo credit:  Harry Trask for AP Images